What did you do today not on your truck...

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by LT7A

That "Thing" will look neat with some detailing and touch-up. Good call on getting it back into stock wheels.

I went with stock wheels because that's what I remember.

[LockDoc]

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Made home made Kahlua.

Cooking the sugar and water mixture.


Cooking the Coffee mixture.


Straining the coffee mixture through nylon hose (new, not used)


Strained coffee mixed with sugar/water mixture.


Adding the rest of the ingredients. I use the best Vanilla I can get for all of my recipes. Doesn't really matter on the alcohol because the strong coffee flavor drowns it all out anyway.


LockDoc

[LockDoc]

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The finished product. 3 - 750ml & 1 - 1liter bottles. It has to age for 3 months.

I just threw the Avon Gas Pump bottle in there for grins....

[FleetsidePaul]

Dang Leon. I thought that I was a good cook until I see what you do.

Thank you for destroying my self esteem.

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by fleetsidepaul

dang leon. I thought that i was a good cook until i see what you do.

Thank you for destroying my self esteem.

x2!

[dieseldawg142]

seen one sweet car today.
roofing a retirement complex and at lunch an old fellow around 75 yrs old comes out. he pops open his garage door to get his mazda, and sitting beside it is a minty mint '70 Chevelle. i ask him, 396?, he's like no, 454, i'm like sweet-LS5? he's it's more like an LS7. then he tells me it is an LS5 that has been worked over and puts out close to 700 hp.
car is 100% stock and orig except for the motor work, and he said he got the paint re-sprayed in 2000 (classic red with black SS stripes). other than that, 100% stock, int., rims....
was not what i was expecting in a retirement home where everyone is zippin' around on electric golf carts.
then the guy told me the kicker-he's the orig owner, bought it brand new in 1970. bought brand new and still owns it 52 yrs later! he showed me all the paperwork for it, orig price was $5236.
so wish i had had my camera today, it was an orig beauty

[LockDoc]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

Dang Leon. I thought that I was a good cook until I see what you do.

Thank you for destroying my self esteem.

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20

x2!

Well, I don't really consider that cooking so you are both safe there. I'm sure I have you both beat at making a mess though....

LockDoc
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[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

Well, I don't really consider that cooking so you are both safe there. I'm sure I have you both beat at making a mess though....

LockDoc
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Don't be so sure about that. I can make a mess better than anybody. Just ask my wife.

[special-K]

I'm best at making a mess. Cooking, I'm still learning.

I worked with a friend I don't see too often. Well, that's everyone. But Pat is a friend I've loosely kept up with most of my life and he lives around here. His dad's place, where he grew up, is not far from here and that's where Pat's shop is. I met him there for work. After work he showed me the latest addition to his car collection, a '47 Dodge Fluid Drive Coupe. All original with a nice cosmetic restoration, paint, interior, re-chromed. He has been finishing the restoration with getting everything working. It hadn't been run in 6 months and we got it running. Then he asked if I wanted to run down to visit his dad (big farm). That car is so smooth! Anyway, the big deal with all this is I haven't visited with his dad in years. I've known the family since I was quite young. His dad is 105 1/2 years old, born 1916! He can't hear too well, but he got everything I was saying. He can't see too well, blind in one eye and not so good on the other eye. He did remember me. In fact, he has a very clear mind yet. I felt privileged to be in the company of someone so old. Someone I have known a long line (in my short life). He is so fortunate to be able to stay in his house, which is a very beautiful setting in the middle of the farm, no houses or roads in sight. He has family tending to him and they hired someone to stay overnight at this point

[special-K]

I'm best at making a mess. Cooking, I'm still learning.

I worked with a friend I don't see too often. Well, that's everyone. But Pat is a friend I've loosely kept up with most of my life and he lives around here. His dad's place, where he grew up, is not far from here and that's where Pat's shop is. I met him there for work. After work he showed me the latest addition to his car collection, a '47 Dodge Fluid Drive Coupe. All original with a nice cosmetic restoration, paint, interior, re-chromed. He has been finishing the restoration with getting everything working. It hadn't been run in 6 months and we got it running. Then he asked if I wanted to run down to visit his dad (big farm). That car is so smooth! Anyway, the big deal with all this is I haven't visited with his dad in years. I've known the family since I was quite young. His dad is 105 1/2 years old, born 1916! He can't hear too well, but he got everything I was saying. He can't see too well, blind in one eye and not so good on the other eye. He did remember me. In fact, he has a very clear mind yet. I felt privileged to be in the company of someone so old. Someone I have known a long line (in my short life). He is so fortunate to be able to stay in his house, which is a very beautiful setting in the middle of the farm, no houses or roads in sight. He has family tending to him and they hired someone to stay overnight at this point

[LockDoc]

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If I'm remembering right that is the first car I ever drove. A friend of the family owned it. Automatic with a clutch....

LockDoc

[FleetsidePaul]

I've seen those "Fluid Drive' Dodges. But have never ridden in one. That must have been quite a treat.

105 years old? Imagine what he has seen. How much the world has changed in his lifetime. It boggles my mind.

[GOPAPA]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

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If I'm remembering right that is the first car I ever drove. A friend of the family owned it. Automatic with a clutch....

LockDoc

I believe that the first car I ever drove by myself any distance was my folks 1952 Dodge fluid drive transmission car.. it had a clutch and also was automatic same as you did Leon ,,If my folks would of waited a month or so longer to buy a new 1953 Dodge ,they would of gotten a new colored TV for doing so ..

[special-K]

Yep, 105. And our conversation kept going back to him seeing a lot of changes. He remembers when radio came out!

That Fluid Drive was a hydraulic coupler that used something like 10w oil. Basically a torque convertor. In case you guys don't remember, it drove like a 3spd column shift. But when you'd come to a stop you didn't have to push in the clutch. But you would still be in the same gear when pulling off, so you still had to shift into 1st. No parking gear, only the emergency brake. I wish I had gotten a picture. The woman had it painted a metallic brownish gold. The interior is a light brown. Just The chrome is of course brand new looking and the stainless was polished. Pat found an oil bath air filter at Hershey and a nice set of hubcaps. It's very sharp looking. He hasn't driven it anywhere but into town once a couple miles. I want to get him to take it to a show so I can ride along. He has been fixing all the little things. Still no radio or fuel gauge. He bought another sending unit for the gauge and hopes that will do the trick. He has over 300 hrs into it so far.

It's close to this color, but ever so shiny. 1" whitewalls (kind of wrong for the car) with black wheels, hubcaps, and beauty rings. The hub caps are like baby moons with Dodge across them in red. He detailed the Fluid Drive stamped into the front bumper red

[FleetsidePaul]

I might be technically cheating here. But I found this when I was cleaning the crap out of the back of the "Love Shack' 20 years worth of junk in the camper.

What is this? It looks cool. I might make a bathroom light out of it.

[3757chevy]

Tuesday , not today . Hung out with the guys . Couple of new guys stopped by.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

I might be technically cheating here. But I found this when I was cleaning the crap out of the back of the "Love Shack' 20 years worth of junk in the camper.

What is this? It looks cool. I might make a bathroom light out of it.

That's what it is, a bathroom light. Or it sure would be a cool one. Not sure, but maybe it was lighting for making movies back when that was a big deal, 16mm, 8mm, and Super8. All I know is I love all that stuff painted with metallic paint and hammerite back then, copper, green, blue, whatever. It was the NEW thing back then

Originally Posted by 3757chevy

Tuesday , not today . Hung out with the guys . Couple of new guys stopped by.

The crowd is growing. That's cool. I see some 67-72s in there. That squashed out coupe is cool to look at I guess. I'm not even sure about that for me. All I know is you can look at it all you want, but drive it? Sorry for blurting, but I just don't care for that trend. Just silly.

That wooden panel is something I might do. All you need is a cowl and build the rest.

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

I might be technically cheating here. But I found this when I was cleaning the crap out of the back of the "Love Shack' 20 years worth of junk in the camper.

What is this? It looks cool. I might make a bathroom light out of it.

Didnt Wile E Coyote use that ? Acme lite company! Think Tim is right it was a light bar for 8mm movie cameras

[72c20customcamper]

Did some paint correction on the Chevelle . It gets micro scratches in the clear because it was painted with the old technology urethane bc/cc . But it makes it easy to polish up .

[3757chevy]

Originally Posted by special-K

The crowd is growing. That's cool. I see some 67-72s in there. That squashed out coupe is cool to look at I guess. I'm not even sure about that for me. All I know is you can look at it all you want, but drive it? Sorry for blurting, but I just don't care for that trend. Just silly.

That wooden panel is something I might do. All you need is a cowl and build the rest.

I'm with you , cool to look at .... NOT practical.
I DO have a 34-35 cowl . .......I have enough to do right now.

[special-K]

I need that! A friend has offered me a Model A frame and another offered to give me the drivetrain and running gear. I could have a rolling chassis fairly easily and certainly cheaply. I don't expect to ever build a full bodied car or pickup but I'd like to come up with something fun. I was thinking a doodlebug but building a wood body huckster or truck would be neat.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

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The finished product. 3 - 750ml & 1 - 1liter bottles. It has to age for 3 months.

I just threw the Avon Gas Pump bottle in there for grins....

Well, it'll be done just in time for KC?

[LockDoc]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Well, it'll be done just in time for KC?

I would have to make an extra batch for you lushes. I remember what happened when I took the home made wine down there.... ... ... ... ...

LockDoc

[Stocker]

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

I would have to make an extra batch for you lushes. I remember what happened when I took the home made wine down there.... ... ... ... ...

LockDoc

That sounds like fun to me. Sorry I missed it.